7 Hills
Yonkers Brewing Co.

16oz can. No dating information found. Label notes this beer was brewed by Aspire Brewing, Middletown NY for Yonkers Brewing Co, Yonkers NY.
Mostly clear, pale gold colored body. One finger of white head rather quickly recedes to an island and a ring. Leaves behind a few scattered lacing spots.
Aroma is "cat piss", with smells of orange, grapefruit, pineapple, pine, and onion.
Taste is orange, grapefruit, pineapple, and pine resin. Fruity and dank, and not overly sweet. Noticeable level of bitterness at the end of each sip. Aftertaste reveals a sweet malt base along with the fruity/pine hops.
Medium mouthfeel. Definite tongue numbing. Good carbonation, with a center surface storm throughout.
Lacks a distinctive impression but fits for style with its body clarity, citrus/tropical/pine flavors, and medium bitterness.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a hazy, medium golden amber with a big four finger head that dissipates slowly to a thick cap with solid lacing. Aroma of faintly caramel and pale malt, vague citrus and faint mixed tropical fruit; a little mineral. Flavor is mildly caramel malt, citrus and tropical fruit hops, mixed over-ripe tropical fruit, orange and grapefruit. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. An old fashioned tasting IPA with rather muddled hop flavors that lean to hazy IPA mixed tropical fruit. It has an adequate moderate bitterness, but tastes like a hazy / mid-west IPA hybrid with the old tired fruit notes in many hazies. Drinkable and fortunately more bitter than a typical hazy, but not one I'd seek out. Age may be an issue here, but there is a mysterious and barely readable date code, so I'll never know.

 

Copper in color with thick white head. Nose is malty and peppery. Taste also has a malty and piney flavor with a peppery feel to it. Smooth beer, bould be better on the bitterness though.